New Washington laws from 2026

Washington enacted 268 new laws in 2026. The most common effective date is June 11, 2026, shared by 221 of them.

Each one links to its bill, with the sponsor, the floor votes and the staff analysis when there is one. When the Legislature says a law has more than one effective date, it says so next to the law, and the final bill report has the details.

Effective March 9, 2026 · 1 law

Chapter 13ESHB 2242: Preserving access to preventive services by clarifying state authority and definitions.

Effective March 11, 2026 · 1 law

Chapter 37HB 2367: Eliminating preferential treatment related to a coal-fired electric generating plant.

Effective March 14, 2026 · 2 laws

Chapter 51ESB 5872: Establishing the preK promise account.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 52SSB 5917: Improving access to abortion medications.

Effective March 16, 2026 · 2 laws

Effective March 17, 2026 · 2 laws

Effective March 18, 2026 · 3 laws

Effective March 19, 2026 · 1 law

Chapter 115SSB 5855: Concerning the use of face coverings by law enforcement officers.

Effective March 24, 2026 · 1 law

Chapter 203ESHB 2320: Concerning the regulation of firearm manufacturing.Some sections take effect on other dates.

Effective March 25, 2026 · 2 laws

Effective March 30, 2026 · 1 law

Chapter 239ESSB 6002: Concerning driver privacy protections.

Effective March 31, 2026 · 2 laws

Chapter 256SSB 6225: Authorizing bonds for transportation funding.
Chapter 257ESSB 6005: Making supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium.Partially vetoed.

Effective April 1, 2026 · 3 laws

Chapter 259SSB 6003: Concerning the capital budget.Partially vetoed.
Chapter 264SHB 2689: Concerning the working connections child care program.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 268ESSB 5998: Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium supplemental operating appropriations.Partially vetoed.

Effective April 30, 2026 · 1 law

Chapter 2582SSB 5974: Modernizing and strengthening laws concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, town marshals, law enforcement agency volunteers, youth cadets, specially commissioned officers, and police matrons.Some sections take effect on other dates.

Effective June 2, 2026 · 1 law

Chapter 141E2SHB 2451: Concerning local tax increment financing.

Effective June 11, 2026 · 221 laws

Chapter 1EHB 1687: Concerning social housing public development authorities.
Chapter 22SHB 1859: Expanding opportunities for affordable housing developments on properties owned by religious organizations.
Chapter 3SHB 2151: Adopting national standards for factory built housing and commercial structures.
Chapter 4SHB 2228: Concerning scissor stair regulations in the state building code.
Chapter 52ESHB 1541: Concerning the veterans affairs advisory committee.
Chapter 6HB 2155: Concerning the use of nursing titles.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 7HB 2304: Increasing the supply of condominiums by expanding the types of condominium buildings that may be subject to an express warranty of quality and express warranty insurance coverage.
Chapter 8SHB 2199: Reducing impacts from derelict vessels.
Chapter 9HB 2606: Concerning performance measures, duties, and reporting requirements for the office of privacy and data protection.
Chapter 10HB 2113: Concerning the supervision of diagnostic radiologic technologists, therapeutic radiologic technologists, and magnetic resonance imaging technologists.
Chapter 11HB 2540: Concerning emergency medical technician recertification.
Chapter 12SHB 2269: Concerning middle housing in unincorporated areas.
Chapter 14SHB 2492: Requiring state registered apprenticeships in the building and construction trades to provide behavioral health and wellness training.
Chapter 16HB 2554: Recognizing judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights and promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements in the management of salmon, trout, and steelhead resources.
Chapter 17ESHB 1604: Providing parameters for conducting searches of transgender and intersex individuals confined in a local jail in compliance with federal law.
Chapter 19SHB 2107: Concerning notice requirements of identified hazards at construction worksites.
Chapter 20SHB 2152: Permitting the medical use of cannabis by qualifying patients in specified health care facilities.
Chapter 22SHB 2230: Streamlining monitoring and oversight activities related to community residential service business providers.
Chapter 23HB 2272: Updating terminology related to ski areas and winter sports activities.
Chapter 24EHB 2294: Prohibiting negative use restrictions on real property that have the effect of limiting consumer access to food and medicine.
Chapter 25ESHB 2303: Prohibiting employers from microchipping employees.
Chapter 262SHB 2345: Concerning contributions in the state paid family and medical leave program.
Chapter 28HB 2417: Changing the Washington code of military justice so that it includes certain protections for victims of an offense while serving within the organized militia of Washington.
Chapter 29SHB 2472: Ensuring that work on fire protection sprinkler systems is performed by licensed contractors and certified fitters.
Chapter 30ESHB 2476: Modifying the spirits, beer, and wine theater license.
Chapter 31HB 2531: Aligning the quality assurance fee for the ambulance transport fund with federal regulations.
Chapter 32ESHB 2534: Promoting educational stability for children of military families.
Chapter 33HB 2543: Concerning county clerk fees.
Chapter 34ESHB 2557: Providing parental access to special education evaluation reports.
Chapter 35SHB 2577: Concerning hospital inspections.
Chapter 36HB 2632: Modernizing terminology when referring to individuals who are not citizens or nationals of the United States.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 38HB 2309: Reducing barriers to state employment by eliminating postgraduate degree requirements that are unnecessary.
Chapter 39HB 2441: Concerning medical insurance premium reimbursements for surviving spouses of line of duty deaths.
Chapter 40SB 5467: Concerning the sale of surplus property by water-sewer districts.
Chapter 41ESSB 5552: Concerning the creation of building codes for kit homes.
Chapter 42SSB 6149: Concerning the definition of "rural county" for purposes of public facilities funding.
Chapter 43SSB 5874: Concerning employers' information reporting for purposes of unemployment compensation.
Chapter 44SB 5963: Modifying funding for the passport to careers program and eligibility for the Washington college grant.
Chapter 45SB 6025: Updating the definition of fetal death.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 46SB 6046: Establishing the Washington division of civil air patrol as part of the Washington military department.
Chapter 47ESSB 6087: Concerning donations for children.
Chapter 48SSB 6183: Concerning coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
Chapter 49SB 6278: Concerning the ongoing review of approved teacher and principal preparation programs.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 50SSB 5825: Authorizing the Washington state leadership board to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 532SHB 2479: Concerning the recovery of unpaid wages.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 54EHB 2317: Concerning early learning program licensing requirements.
Chapter 57SSB 6091: Prohibiting real estate brokers from marketing residential properties to an exclusive group of prospective buyers or real estate brokers.
Chapter 58HB 2254: Providing flexibility in the partnership access line assessment to cover administrative costs.
Chapter 60HB 2353: Concerning predesign thresholds.
Chapter 61SHB 2410: Establishing a commercial truck safety and education council.
Chapter 63HB 2431: Increasing the maximum annual limit for regularly scheduled fundraising activities for the nonprofit public assembly halls and meeting places property tax exemption.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 64HB 2436: Concerning requirements of oil tankers operating in restricted waters.
Chapter 65SHB 2467: Concerning fifth-wheel travel trailers.
Chapter 66SHB 2714: Concerning caseload forecasting for food assistance programs.
Chapter 67ESSB 5252: Removing the acreage limit on the property tax exemption for nonprofit public assembly halls and meeting places.
Chapter 68SSB 5834: Concerning payment of expenses from the earnings of retirement system trust funds.
Chapter 69SSB 5886: Concerning personality rights.
Chapter 70SB 5915: Concerning the health technology assessment program.
Chapter 71SB 5922: Authorizing transportation vehicle fund transfers.
Chapter 72SB 5957: Concerning the office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs advisory committee.
Chapter 73SB 5988: Establishing fee authority for accreditation services provided to opioid treatment programs by the department of health.
Chapter 75SB 5995: Concerning moneys available to a port district allocated for the purchase of zero and near zero emission cargo handling equipment.
Chapter 77SSB 6039: Modernizing methods of communications by the department of labor and industries.
Chapter 78SSB 6189: Removing the deadline for forming a public facilities district for regional aquatics and sports facilities.
Chapter 80SHB 2248: Concerning corporate filings and other documents processed by the secretary of state's corporations and charities division.
Chapter 81ESHB 1980: Allowing certain private employer transportation services to use certain public transportation facilities.
Chapter 82ESHB 2219: Enhancing the operational efficiency of child care providers.
Chapter 83ESHB 2238: Concerning statewide food security.
Chapter 84SSB 5923: Concerning critical access hospital designations in Skagit county.
Chapter 85ESSB 6019: Improving the functioning of home care rate statutes.
Chapter 87SB 6151: Concerning dedicated accounts for fees collected for the implementation of environmental programs.
Chapter 88SSB 6268: Maintaining an online record of special education complaint decisions.
Chapter 89HB 2249: Amending the state civil service statutes to include Washington technology solutions network and security systems employees.
Chapter 90SHB 2323: Establishing a blue envelope program.
Chapter 91SHB 2505: Exempting certain former foster care providers from adult family home licensure.
Chapter 92SSB 5911: Strengthening the financial stability of persons in the care of the department of children, youth, and families.
Chapter 932SHB 2429: Supporting children and youth behavioral health.
Chapter 94HB 2338: Authorizing community scaled weatherization projects.
Chapter 95SHB 2350: Increasing transparency regarding residential habilitation center compliance with certain federal requirements.
Chapter 96SHB 2354: Concerning common interest communities.
Chapter 97SHB 2420: Increasing small works roster contract limits.
Chapter 98HB 2426: Improving efficiency in appeals to the pollution control hearings board.
Chapter 100HB 2521: Concerning firearms background check.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 101HB 2604: Transferring ownership of a vehicle to an insurer under certain circumstances.
Chapter 102HB 2610: Ensuring nonprofit housing providers qualify for a property tax exemption when the property is temporarily used for certain community purposes other than affordable housing.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 105ESSB 6302: Concerning misclassification in the finishing trades on public works projects.
Chapter 1062SSB 5690: Concerning actions of the department of transportation to notify utility owners of projects and seek federal funding for utility relocation costs.
Chapter 1082SSB 5880: Concerning toxicology testing by certified or accredited laboratories.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 109SB 5944: Concerning language access providers' collective bargaining.
Chapter 110ESSB 5975: Providing consumer access to safe cookware and interstate and international trade certainty in the regulation of lead in cookware.
Chapter 111SB 6011: Concerning the authority of court of appeals bailiffs to assess threats to court of appeals judicial officers and staff members.
Chapter 112SB 6103: Making payments for services provided by a rural emergency hospital subject to appropriation.
Chapter 114ESHB 2165: Concerning false identification as a peace officer.
Chapter 116HB 2348: Updating timber sale process efficiencies and adopting consistent language for the department's land sales.
Chapter 117HB 2104: Concerning aviation assurance funding in response to wildland fires.
Chapter 118SHB 2452: Modifying requirements for service of rent increase notices.
Chapter 119SHB 2525: Establishing the heritage orchard program.
Chapter 1202ESHB 1210: Concerning targeted urban area tax preferences.
Chapter 121SB 6132: Authorizing a narrow modification to indebtedness limits for select inland port districts to ensure continued eligibility for federal funding for rail, power, and other critical public infrastructure improvements.
Chapter 122SSB 5841: Concerning the completion of postsecondary financial aid applications.
Chapter 123E2SSB 6066: Establishing crash prevention zones.
Chapter 124ESSB 6194: Allowing payments to be made based on allowable costs for services provided by any rural hospital that is located on a federally recognized Indian reservation. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Allowing payments to be made for services provided by any rural hospital that is located on a federally recognized Indian reservation.)
Chapter 125SSB 6170: Adjusting monetary limits regarding contracting rules for state highway construction work and procurement.
Chapter 126ESHB 1187: Protecting patients involved in motor vehicle accidents from delayed ambulance bills.
Chapter 127SHB 1302: Concerning utility connection charge waivers.
Chapter 128EHB 1501: Concerning inquiries into association governance or operations by unit owners in common interest communities.
Chapter 129E3SHB 1634: Providing school districts and public schools with assistance to coordinate comprehensive behavioral health supports for students.
Chapter 130ESHB 2471: Concerning collective bargaining for employees not covered by the national labor relations act.
Chapter 132HB 2124: Concerning the threshold for payment of a lump sum retirement allowance in lieu of a monthly benefit.
Chapter 133EHB 2179: Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan, a union-sponsored defined benefit retirement plan, or another employer-funded private pension plan. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan.)Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 134ESHB 2229: Concerning the professional engineers' registration act.
Chapter 135ESHB 2274: Modifying the Washington commercial electronic mail act.
Chapter 136SHB 2296: Expanding the use of distributed energy resources.
Chapter 137EHB 2575: Reducing certain reporting obligations under environmental or energy laws.
Chapter 138SHB 2334: Adjusting the price of a cash transaction to eliminate the need for pennies.
Chapter 139SHB 2339: Concerning the regulation of nursing. (CORRECTED COPY)Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 1402SHB 2384: Increasing regulatory oversight of continuing care retirement communities.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 142SHB 2475: Concerning language accessible public programs, activities, and services conducted, operated, or administered by state agencies.
Chapter 143E2SHB 2523: Concerning the community reinvestment program.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 144HB 2664: Modifying requirements for service of unlawful detainer notices and other notices served in the same manner.
Chapter 145ESSB 5156: Concerning elevator standards in smaller apartment buildings.
Chapter 146SSB 5827: Concerning the definition of a "qualifying discharge" for the Washington state veterans' preference program for civil service.
Chapter 1472SSB 5969: Reducing duplication between high school and beyond plans and individualized education program transition plans.
Chapter 1482SHB 1128: Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
Chapter 150HB 2264: Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for workers separated from employment as a result of employer-initiated layoffs or workforce reductions.
Chapter 151SHB 2178: Concerning court rules and procedures.
Chapter 152ESHB 2192: Updating the role of the Washington traffic safety commission in identifying the risk factors that lead to roadway fatalities.
Chapter 153HB 2385: Concerning the medicaid access program.
Chapter 154SSB 5185: Establishing a pilot program that creates a pathway to physician licensure for international medical graduates.
Chapter 155ESB 5272: Improving school safety by extending penalties for interference by, or intimidation by threat of, force or violence at schools and extracurricular activities and requiring schools to notify the public of such penalties.
Chapter 156SSB 5938: Concerning the foreclosure prevention fee.
Chapter 157E2SSB 5395: Making improvements to transparency and accountability in the prior authorization determination process.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 158ESSB 5845: Modernizing and clarifying timely payment requirements for health carriers.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 159ESSB 6110: Addressing electric-assisted bicycles and electric motorcycles.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 160SSB 6269: Modernizing the definition of motor fuel in the motor fuel quality act.
Chapter 161SB 6134: Concerning notice to striking workers applying for unemployment insurance benefits of potential overpayment assessment upon receipt of retroactive wages.
Chapter 162SB 6136: Promoting transparency in certain industrial insurance rate increases.
Chapter 163ESSB 6162: Concerning property tax reform.
Chapter 164SB 6244: Extending an existing hazardous substance tax exemption for certain agricultural crop protection products that are temporarily warehoused but not otherwise used, manufactured, packaged, or sold in the state of Washington.
Chapter 165SSB 6248: Addressing travel insurance.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 166SSB 6309: Providing for enhanced municipal permitting tools for high capacity transit projects.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 169ESHB 1795: Addressing restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs.
Chapter 170HB 1796: Concerning school districts' authority to contract indebtedness for school construction.
Chapter 171HB 1983: Amending the definition of timberland for purposes of determining the real estate excise tax for a governmental entity.
Chapter 173SHB 2239: Providing Washingtonians and their loved ones with location choices for interment of remains.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 174ESHB 2508: Clarifying the scope of authority of the office of independent investigations to align with current operations and practices and to include public disclosure requirements and protect privacy.
Chapter 175E2SSB 5847: Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 176ESB 6058: Adding discretion to wage enforcement actions.
Chapter 177ESSB 5837: Concerning guardianship, conservatorship, and other protective arrangements for adults.
Chapter 179SB 6188: Concerning the department of labor and industries' authority to enact rules related to regulating asbestos training.
Chapter 180SSB 6054: Concerning unreasonable restrictions on wildfire home hardening practices in common interest communities.
Chapter 181SSB 5982: Updating provisions for consumer-owned utilities, including port districts, and affected market customers under the clean energy transformation act.
Chapter 182SB 6065: Concerning school district transportation vehicle funds.
Chapter 183SSB 6076: Streamlining consumer-owned utility procurement requirements for clean energy generation, energy storage, transmission, and distribution projects.
Chapter 184ESSB 6200: Concerning renters' and mobile home occupants' ability to install portable cooling devices.
Chapter 185SSB 6226: Protecting the clinical autonomy of audiologists.
Chapter 186ESSB 6354: Advancing transportation electrification by expanding access to electric vehicles already being sold in Washington and increasing associated funding.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 187EHB 2588: Concerning county ferry district authority.
Chapter 188ESHB 2532: Concerning the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide.
Chapter 189HB 1069: Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
Chapter 190ESHB 1295: Using evidence-based instructional practices in reading and writing literacy for public elementary students.
Chapter 191HB 1376: Concerning the prepayment of capital gains taxes six months prior to the due date.
Chapter 192HB 1526: Modifying the snack bar liquor license.
Chapter 193ESHB 2110: Concerning personnel for ambulance service interfacility specialty care transports.
Chapter 194ESHB 1500: Concerning resale certificates for units in common interest communities.
Chapter 195HB 2091: Requiring public employers under chapter 41.80 RCW to provide employee information to exclusive bargaining representatives.
Chapter 1962SHB 1701: Authorizing multiple liquor licensees to have licensed premises within a facility owned and leased out by another liquor licensee or person.
Chapter 197SHB 2360: Expanding access to albuterol in public and private schools.
Chapter 198HB 2624: Clarifying consumer protections regarding unsolicited real estate transactions for public purposes or by nonprofit land conservancies.
Chapter 1992SHB 1909: Establishing the court unification task force.
Chapter 200EHB 2211: Concerning medically tailored meals.
Chapter 201SHB 2594: Ensuring that unhoused children and youths in Washington have equal access to free, appropriate public education.
Chapter 204EHB 2445: Ending probates for profit.
Chapter 205SHB 2539: Concerning inmate funds.
Chapter 206ESSB 5124: Establishing network adequacy standards for skilled nursing facilities and rehabilitation hospitals.
Chapter 207SB 5420: Ensuring access to state benefits and opportunities for veterans, uniformed service members, and military spouses.
Chapter 208SB 5863: Concerning the preservation and inspection of state historical records.
Chapter 209ESB 6347: Undoing the recent changes to the estate tax. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Undoing certain changes to the estate tax.)
Chapter 210SB 6291: Concerning on-site wastewater treatment system inspections.
Chapter 211E3SHB 1710: Concerning compliance with the Washington voting rights act of 2018.
Chapter 212ESHB 1916: Amending voter registration challenges and managing voter registration lists.
Chapter 2142SSB 6035: Ensuring access to voting services for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters.
Chapter 215E2SHB 1750: Creating guidelines for voter suppression and vote dilution claims under the Washington voting rights act.
Chapter 216E2SHB 2416: Concerning fair treatment of waste to energy facilities under the climate commitment act.
Chapter 218EHB 1941: Authorizing agricultural cooperatives for cannabis producers.
Chapter 222ESHB 2548: Strengthening health care market standards.
Chapter 2232ESSB 5105: Concerning sexually explicit depictions of minors.
Chapter 224SSB 5520: Concerning the wrongly convicted persons act.
Chapter 225SSB 5346: Addressing student use of mobile devices in public schools.
Chapter 226SB 5868: Adding an additional superior court judge in Skagit county and in Yakima county.
Chapter 227E2SSB 5981: Concerning the 340B drug pricing program.
Chapter 2282SSB 6182: Establishing an abortion savings program.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 229E2SHB 2325: Establishing a tourism self-supported assessment program to fund statewide tourism promotion.
Chapter 230E2SSB 6027: Modifying certain funding and exemptions related to providing and maintaining affordable housing and related services.
Chapter 231EHB 1345: Establishing limitations on detached accessory dwelling units outside of urban growth areas.
Chapter 232ESHB 2266: Encouraging permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, and indoor emergency shelters.
Chapter 233E2SHB 1974: Establishing land banking authorities.
Chapter 234SSB 6237: Concerning rental property disclosures of flooding history and flood risk.
Chapter 235E2SHB 2418: Concerning permit review processes.
Chapter 236E2SSB 6026: Concerning residential development in commercial and mixed-use zones.
Chapter 2372SHB 1906: Increasing transparency and consumer protection in water system rates.
Chapter 238ESSB 6346: Establishing a tax on millionaires.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 2402SHB 2105: Concerning immigrant worker protections.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 241SHB 2411: Modifying shared leave provisions to authorize shared leave for victims of a hate crime and those whose absence is due to immigration enforcement actions against the employee or the employee's relative.
Chapter 242EHB 2156: Concerning the authority of investigators of the attorney general's office.
Chapter 243ESSB 5925: Concerning the general powers and duties of the attorney general’s office.
Chapter 244SHB 2496: Concerning tribal consultation conducted by the energy facility site evaluation council.
Chapter 245SSB 6034: Concerning statutory establishment of the governor's office of Indian affairs.
Chapter 246SB 6137: Concerning the regulated sports wagering industry.
Chapter 247SB 5820: Concerning the responsibility of certain counties to include freight rail dependent use overlay as part of the transportation element of their comprehensive plan.
Chapter 249SSB 6355: Concerning the electric transmission system.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 250ESSB 6113: Concerning taxes administered by the department of revenue.Partially vetoed.
Chapter 251E2SHB 2215: Concerning climate commitment act compliance obligations for fuels supplied or otherwise sold into Washington.Partially vetoed.
Chapter 252E2SHB 1903: Establishing a statewide low-income energy assistance program.Partially vetoed.
Chapter 253ESB 6246: Concerning emissions from emissions-intensive, trade-exposed facilities under the climate commitment act.Partially vetoed.
Chapter 254SHB 1390: Repealing the community protection program.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 255ESHB 2711: Concerning transportation resources.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 262EHB 2681: Modifying cannabis producer, processor, and retailer license fees. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning cannabis license fees.)
Chapter 263EHB 2487: Concerning taxes imposed on insurers operating within the state.
Chapter 266ESSB 6231: Expiring tax exemptions for data centers. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Removing a tax exemption for the replacement of equipment for data centers.)Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 267ESSB 6260: Implementing efficiencies and programming changes in public education.Some sections take effect on other dates.

Effective July 1, 2026 · 5 laws

Chapter 59HB 2340: Applying substance use disorder monitoring program provisions to nursing assistants.
Chapter 131SHB 2089: Supporting wildfire mitigation by modifying RCW 82.04.29005, concerning taxes on loan interest.
Chapter 220SHB 2405: Establishing a pilot program for posttraumatic stress disorder treatment and research.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 221ESHB 2442: Providing local governments tax resources and fund flexibility.Some sections take effect on other dates.
Chapter 248SSB 5862: Providing a cost-of-living adjustment for plan 1 retirees of the teachers' retirement system and public employees' retirement system.

Effective January 1, 2027 · 9 laws

Effective February 1, 2027 · 1 law

Chapter 167E2SHB 1170: Informing users when content is developed or modified by artificial intelligence.

Effective June 30, 2027 · 1 law

Chapter 149ESHB 1155: Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements.

Effective July 1, 2027 · 3 laws

Chapter 15SHB 2355: Establishing labor protections for domestic workers.
Chapter 202ESHB 2247: Concerning veterinarian-client-patient relationships.
Chapter 219E2SHB 2251: Concerning climate commitment act accounts.

Effective January 1, 2028 · 3 laws

Effective July 1, 2028 · 1 law

Chapter 18SHB 2088: Concerning the dietitian licensure compact.

Effective June 30, 2029 · 1 law

Chapter 261E2SHB 2034: Concerning termination and restatement of plan 1 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.Some sections take effect on other dates.

Other years: 2025 · 2024 · 2023

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